2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

In May 2024, over 65,000 developers responded to our annual survey about coding, the technologies and tools they use and want to learn, AI, and developer experience at work. Check out the results and see what's new for Stack Overflow users.

Table of contents

1. Technology
2. AI
3. Work
4. Community
5. Professional Developers
6. Methodology

Methodology

65,437

Coders from 185 countries around the world.

Technology

62.3%

Have used JavaScript in the past year.

Methodology

48,019

Respondants shared salary information.

Daily time spent searching for answers/solutions →

1. 1. Developer Profile
1. 1.1. Education
1. Educational attainment
2. 1.2. Learning to code
1. Learning to code
2. Online resources to learn how to code
3. Technical documentation preferences to learn how to code
3. 1.3. Experience
1. Years coding
2. Years coding professionally
3. Years of professional coding experience by developer type
4. 1.4. Developer roles
1. Developer type
5. 1.5. Key territories
1. Geography
6. 1.6. Demographics
1. Age
2. 2. Technology
1. 2.1. Most popular technologies
1. Programming, scripting, and markup languages
2. Databases
3. Cloud platforms
4. Web frameworks and technologies
5. Embedded Technologies
6. Other frameworks and libraries
7. Other tools
8. Integrated development environment
9. Asynchronous tools
10. Synchronous tools
11. Operating system
12. AI Search and Developer Tools
2. 2.2. Admired and Desired
1. Programming, scripting, and markup languages
2. Databases
3. Cloud platforms
4. Web frameworks and technologies
5. Embedded Technologies
6. Other frameworks and libraries
7. Other tools
8. Integrated development environment
9. Asynchronous tools
10. Synchronous tools
11. AI Search and Developer Tools
3. 2.3. Worked with vs. want to work with
1. Programming, scripting, and markup languages
2. Databases
3. Cloud platforms
4. Web frameworks and technologies
5. Embedded Technologies
6. Other frameworks and libraries
7. Other tools
8. Integrated development environment
9. Asynchronous tools
10. Synchronous tools
11. AI Search and Developer Tools
4. 2.4. Top paying technologies
1. Top paying technologies
2. Change in salaries between 2023 and 2024
3. 3. AI
1. 3.1. Sentiment and usage
1. AI tools in the development process
2. AI tool sentiment
2. 3.2. Developer tools
1. Benefits of AI tools
2. Accuracy of AI tools
3. AI tools' ability to handle complex tasks
4. AI in the development workflow
5. AI tools next year
3. 3.3. Efficacy and Ethics
1. Are AI tools a threat to your job
2. Most important ethical issues for AI
3. Challenges with AI at work
4. AI at work in one year
4. 4. Work
1. 4.1. Employment
1. Employment status
2. Employment status by geography
3. Work environment
2. 4.2. Company info
1. Company size
3. 4.3. Salary
1. Salary by developer type
2. Salary and experience by developer type
3. Salary and experience by language
4. 4.4. Purchasing technology
1. Influence on technology purchases
2. Prefer to build and/or buy new tech
3. Researching new tools and technologies
4. Tech endorsement factors
5. 4.5. Coding outside of work
1. Coding outside of work
5. 5. Community
1. 5.1. Stack Overflow site use
1. Visiting sites across Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
2. Frequency of visiting Stack Overflow
3. Have an account on Stack Overflow
2. 5.2. Participation and Feedback
1. Frequency of participation on Stack Overflow
2. How you choose to use Stack Overflow
3. Feel like a part of the Stack Overflow community
4. Top suggested improvements per frequency of participation
6. 6. Professional Developers
1. 6.1. Productivity Impacts
1. Participation in Professional Developer series
2. Individual contributor or people manager
3. Years of professional work experience
4. Ability to find knowledge and information within their organization
5. Frequency of productivity frictions
6. Daily time spent searching for answers/solutions
7. Daily time spent answering questions
2. 6.2. Developer Experience
1. Processes, tools, and programs within an organization
2. Cloud on On-prem environments
3. Resources for technical questions at work
4. Most common frustrations
3. 6.3. Job Industry and Satisfaction
1. Industry
2. Satisfied at current job
3. Factors that most contribute to job satisfaction
7. 7. Methodology
1. 7.1. General
2. 7.2. Feedback
1. How do you feel about the length of the survey this year?
2. How easy or difficult was this survey to complete?
3. 7.3. Participants
1. Who participated in this survey

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